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Infantino has been elected as FIFA president after a second round of voting
in Zurich.
UEFA general secretary Infantino won the election with 115 votes, with
Sheikh Salman receiving 88 votes. Prince Ali received four votes and no
votes were recorded for Jerome Champagne.
In his victory speech, Infantino said: "I told you I went through a journey,
an exceptional journey and a journey which made me meet many fantastic
people - many people who love football and believe in football, and many
people who deserve FIFA to be respected.
"We will restore the respect people have in FIFA and everybody will applaud
us, and they will applaud all of you for what you do.
"We have to be proud of what we do for FIFA. I would like to thank all of
you and all of the other candidates.
"It was a great sign of democracy of FIFA. I want to restore a new era in
FIFA where we put football at the centre of the speech."
On Infantino's appointment, FA chairman Greg Dyke said: "I think he's very
hard working, and I think he would make sure it was properly organised,
properly structured place.
"I think he will find a good chief executive - because that's the crucial
thing here, finding a good chief executive to run things.
"But I don't think he's a politician, whereas we've just has a politician
for many years."
In the first round of voting, Infantino received 88 votes, Salman 85, Ali 27
and Champagne seven.
A total of 159 votes was required for an outright win in the first round of
voting but that target was not reached and there was a second round for the
first time at a FIFA presidential election since 1974.
Infantino will succeed Sepp Blatter, who had been in the post since 1998 but
resigned last year under pressure amid escalating corruption scandals.
Blatter was re-elected for a fifth term in May 2015 but has since been
banned for six years over a "disloyal payment" of £1.3m between him and UEFA
president Michel Platini in 2011.
South African candidate Tokyo Sexwale used his 15-minute pre-election speech
to officially withdraw from the race, leaving just four candidates on the
ballot.